A suspension-feeding anomalocarid from the Early Cambrian

Jakob Vinther (), Martin Stein, Nicholas R. Longrich and David A. T. Harper
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Jakob Vinther: Schools of Earth Sciences and Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UG, UK
Martin Stein: Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen University, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 , Denmark
Nicholas R. Longrich: University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
David A. T. Harper: Palaeoecosystems Group, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK

Nature, 2014, vol. 507, issue 7493, 496-499

Abstract: Tamisiocaris borealis, an Early Cambrian member of the anomalocarids—giant, predatory marine stem arthropods—probably used its frontal appendage to trap microscopic, planktonic animals.

Date: 2014
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